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Susan Greenfield

Brighton Festival

What makes you, you? A fascinating question but one that is, of course, by no means easy to answer. Explaining the complexities of neuroscience in relation to human identity is no easy task, even for Professor Susan Greenfield. Proceedings began with Laurie Taylor, the chair, talking to Greenfield about general aspects of her work. When asked to provide an overview of neuroscience, Greenfield launched into a well rehearsed patter which would have left the non-scientists in the audience a little bewildered. It was left to Taylor to put this, as well as her other high speed responses, into some kind of context more accessible to the laymen in the audience. Audience questions rounded off a routine performance from Greenfield, whilst Taylor's hippocampus gag ended the talk on a high.

Corn Exchange, 18 May, 3:00pm, £7.50, fpp 35

tw rating: 2/5

published: Aug-2008

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